Being a teacher is backbreaking difficult work. It is also extremely important work.

— Timothy Noah

Being superintendent or the superintendent's chief of staff is important work, but there's no chance it's as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it's as important.

— Timothy Noah

Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.

— Timothy Noah

Expressing truth is hard work.

— Timothy Noah

Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.

— Timothy Noah

If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.

— Timothy Noah

In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.

— Timothy Noah

Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.

— Timothy Noah

Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.

— Timothy Noah

Steve Jobs was the greatest manufacturer of consumer products of his age. His marketing vision put him on par with Henry Ford, and his grasp of the aesthetic component to industrial design far surpassed Ford's.

— Timothy Noah